times best selling author hosts his own pod cast called star talk he's director of the famed hayden planetarium when i was eight years old he took me to a little boy's we came from school his new show is cosmos it debuts on fox in early two thousand and fourteen he's the recipient of eighteen honorary doctorates and the nasa distinguished service medal as the highest award given by nasa to a non-government citizen before anything else i want a group with a lot of guys not one want to be an astrophysicist. i don't know where you grew up . the brooklyn plays you go i actually grew up in bronx the bronx and his whole impala who he want to be a four star general you want to be honest it's when you got into it in the city this you don't have a relationship with the sky you know you know how did you choose one of the building there there's back then there was smog and pollution so yeah it was a first visit to the hayden planetarium really that i now direct as a kid as a kid as a kid i was i when kids in new york go to have you on at some point you go through a school trip and i guess it doesn't hit e

neil degrasse tyson is with the hayden planetarium.overnment on how to defend the planet. really? we need to work on defending the planet? >> we've always known we don't want to get hit. >> because we've been hit. >> we've been hit. and just talk to the dinosaurs about what happens when you get hit. >> bye-bye. >> yeah. the dinosaurs were taken out by an asteroid about the size of mount everest. and the dinosaurs have big teeth and they're ferocious. but few people thing about the fact that 70% of all the world's species of life went extinct in that very same episode. so it was a devastating event on earth. and that's the big one. little ones can come, maybe we won't go instinct, but it will take out our grid. we might have to jump-start civilization. what happens when we do find one headed our way? who's in charge of deflecting it? what moneys will you use to put together to fund such a mission? >> how much warning would we get? >> so you want as much warning as possible and there are asteroids who have collision courses with earth, w